Line Up for the 2018 Human Rights Watch Film Festival

The Line Up information for the 2018 Human Rights Watch Film Festival hs been revealed. 

This year's festival highlights women fighting back against personal and institutional abuse, and 12 of the 15 films are directed by women.  This year's festival also probes government and corporate regulation of information with films like The Cleaners on data gatekeepers. 

The opening night film On Her Shoulders about Yezidi Human Rights advocate and ISIS survivor Nadia Murad opens the festival on June 14, and the closing night film The Unafraid explores the experience of DACA students struggling to fight for their own education as they face a very uncertain future. 

A Thousand Girls Like Me

Filmmaker(s): 

Sahra Mani

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

Angkar

Filmmaker(s): 

Neary Adeline Hay

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

Anote's Ark

Filmmaker(s): 

Matthieu Rytz

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

Charm City

Filmmaker(s): 

Marilyn Ness

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

The Cleaners

Filmmaker(s): 

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

The Distant Barking of Dogs

Filmmaker(s): 

Simon Lereng Wilmont

Year: 

2017

New York

 

 

Facing the Dragon

Filmmaker(s): 

Sedika Mojadidi

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

Naila and the Uprising

Filmmaker(s): 

Julia Bacha

Year: 

2017

London, New York

 

 

On Her Shoulders

Filmmaker(s): 

Alexandria Bombach

Year: 

2018

New York

 

The Silence of Others

Filmmaker(s): 

Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

TransMilitary

Filmmaker(s): 

Gabriel Silverman, Co-director Fiona Dawson

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

The Unafraid

Filmmaker(s): 

Anayansi Prado and Heather Courtney

Year: 

2018

New York

 

Voices of the Sea

Filmmaker(s): 

Kim Hopkins

Year: 

2018

New York

 

 

What Will People Say

Filmmaker(s): 

Iram Haq

Year: 

2017

New York, Toronto

 

Women of the Venezuelan Chaos

Filmmaker(s): 

Margarita Cadenas

Year: 

2017

London, New York